Gaslighting Means Control Poem by Lodigiana Poetess

She loves him, but obsesses endlessly one day he'll love her too;

He loves himself and he alone decides her love for who;

If love means overwriting her personality…..

Then yes he loves her…..

If love is making her believe she is a monster….

That's how he loves her…...

If love is telling her his mother was cruel so hers must be as well……

Then he loves her……

If loving her means isolating her from everyone who truly cares.…

Again, he loves her.

If love is messing with her memory and perception

and apologising for her thoughts….

Then yes he loves her….

She finds the strength to tell someone that she knows what he has done

But in his presence will deny the words, yes every one….

If love is making her see the apocalypse but telling her she's blind,

To say that she's the crazy one, unloved, out of her mind,

To take away her rights to feelings leaves her open wide

to controlled manipulation, insidiously applied;

She has to love all that he loves, no matter how absurd,

to go against his will would be irrational she's heard.

He conquers all, she trails along to pick up grateful crumbs

To let him overwrite her life until she just becomes

The faintest light that flickers with no luminosity

‘cause he's the one gaslighting in a glow no one can see……….but me